Portal:Current events/2009 March 26
March 26, 2009 (Thursday)
- United States President Barack Obama announces a new military strategy for the War in North-West Pakistan and the War in Afghanistan. (CNN)
- Franco-Russian mathematician Mikhail Gromov receives the 2009 Abel Prize. (MAA)
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy will renounce his title of Co-Prince of Andorra if the country does not change its banking laws. (Reuters via IHT)
- Germany admits that the unidentified Phantom of Heilbronn serial killer never existed. (BBC)
- Sudan alleges that an aircraft attacked an arms trafficking convoy near Port Sudan in January 2009. (YNET)
- Forty-seven fragments of the meteoroid 2008 TC3 are discovered in Sudan's Nubian Desert. (New Scientist)
- A car bomb kills at least 16 people and injures 35 others in Baghdad, Iraq. (AFP)
- International Space Station Expedition 19 launches aboard the Soyuz TMA-14 from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome. (NASA)
- A Taliban suicide attack kills at least 11 people and injures 20 others in Jandola, Pakistan. (VOA)
- Two tornadoes injure 24 people and damage 108 homes in Mississippi, United States. (CNN)
- Somali pirates hijack ships from the Isle of Man, Greece, and the Seychelles, while three other ships escape. (Marine Log)
- A bus–truck collision kills 14 people and injures four others in Petushki, Russia. (RTÉ)
- Debris from an Arrow Air McDonnell Douglas DC-10 airplane strikes Manaus, Brazil. (BBC)